Getting the wrong end of the stick about Open Education

Open Education itself is a conspiracy, if you like. Evil publishers are profiting from the unequal distribution of information, where they do take steps to address this they are âopenwashingâ. They do this because they hate learning where a profit is not made. If we attain a critical mass, open education will replace the textbook publishing industry.

If you are sitting there thinking âwho, us?â, ask yourself what information would falsify your belief in open education. What information would falsify your other beliefs?

I see what he’s getting at, but pace Kuhn’s classic, science involves belief systems, too. It’s not a question of Popperian falsifiability. What we actually need, and what Brexit, Trump, and the ‘post-factual landscape’ has played into, is for us to doÂ a better job around collectiveÂ ‘identity’.*